Moat Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. Farmhouse.
Moat Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- high-dormer-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Moat Farmhouse, Sandye Lane, Swineshead
- OS grid reference
- TL 057 658
- Coordinates
- 52.28087, -0.45167
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moat Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. It features a colour washed rough cast exterior on a timber frame and has an old clay tile roof that is half hipped at the south gable end. The building is T-shaped and has two storeys, with a two-storey porch at the front and a slightly later two-storey addition at the south end of the rear.
On the left side, the ground floor has a five-light bay window, while the first floor has a three-light 20th-century casement window. The porch is adorned with pilasters flanking the door, a wooden canopy with drop finials, and a first-floor five-light oriel window with moulded wood mullions, leaded lights, and carved wood brackets. The recessed bay includes a ground floor lean-to extension with a 20th-century four-light casement and a first-floor four-light leaded casement with moulded wood mullions.
The cross-wing gable end features a Venetian window on the ground floor and a four-light leaded casement with moulded wood mullions on the first floor. There is also a 20th-century lean-to extension to the north, and the rear wing has leaded lights.
Local climate
Moat Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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